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About Simone Weil
French philosopher, mystic, political activist and labourer
Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, political activist, and labourer. She is remembered for a body of thought that continued to shape contemporary philosophy after her short life ended. Her writing and thinking centered on religion, spirituality, and politics. Those themes gave her work a lasting reach, especially among readers drawn to serious moral and political reflection.
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- “If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But…”Simone Weil
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- “Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal…”Simone Weil
God: more sayings
- “Jesus is more interested in your heart than your ministry.”Carlos A. Rodriguez
- “To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that t…”Charles Taze Russell
- “I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the…”Huston Smith
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Books by Simone Weil
Oppression et liberté
1978
The Simone Weil reader
1985